The Department for Children, Schools and Families was one of three new government departments set up by the then Prime Minister (of the UK) on 28 June 2007; the others are the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS) and the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (DBERR), later merged into the Department of Business Innovation and Skills.

It has lasted less than three years.

One of the oddities of the UK is that there is a UK government and devolved Scottish, Welsh and Northern Ireland governments but no English government. (As yet.)